Close Friends
July 31, 2010
“Every close friendship offers the same fundamental thrill; someone has singled you out and chosen you, someone who had no obligation to do so.”
-Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell
I just got this quote on a postcard from a good friend. She gave me a station tour when I applied for an internship in Lubbock. We would co-anchor four years later in San Angelo.
We go through life so quickly and in the end we only have a handful of close friends. JMD
Raise your sail
July 30, 2010
The winds of grace are blowing all the time.
You have only to raise your sail.
–Sri Ramakrishna
That pretzel M&M commercial is disturbing. Leave the candy alone.
- America’s JIM
Prayer and Action
July 29, 2010
“I prayed for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
- Frederick Douglass
Kudos to Dallas for putting libraries in grocery stores and malls. When we moved from city to city, my mother made a trip to the library to get our new cards a priority. As an adult I made that same trip a priority each time I moved. JMD
Doughty Reunion
July 23, 2010
I just found out some Doughty common cousins are having a Family reunion.
Doughty Reunion
this Sunday 7/25.
10am – 3pm.
Belton RV
Info/Directions call
According to my thumbing through Our Doughty Families, they hail from:
William Green Doughty
8-12-1866 who was Jesse Orlando’s father. Pg 43
William’s father was Joseph M. Doughty 8-11-1823. Pg 35 His father Joseph Jr.
10-12-1783 pg 3
was my 5th great grandfather’s older brother (Daniel Doughty 1775)
All from Joseph Doughty b. 1755 and wife Nancy b. 3-14-1747.
James Michael Doughty
Words
July 20, 2010
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.”
- Philip K. Dick, American science fiction writer (1928-1982)
Do what you have to do
July 19, 2010
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
~Epictetus
Fascinating
July 18, 2010
“The thing that’s between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you’re a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we’re alike.”
- Marguerite Duras, French Novelist, Screenwriter, Playwright and Film Director (1914-1996)
http://www.amazon.com/Some-Monument-Last-Journalist-Letters/dp/B0020HR6W6
Order the Kindle Edition of Some Monument to Last this week and get a free paperback.
Open Mic
July 17, 2010
Comedy Night
Buffalo Wings & Rings
983 Loop 337
New Braunfels
7:30 p.m.
Monday July 19th
I’ll take up Hookah when it comes in a nacho flavor! AJ
Bend it
July 17, 2010
Few people will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all these acts will be written the history of this generation.
~ Robert F. Kennedy
Goals
July 16, 2010
“Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.”
~Brian Tracy
